HGTV’s new realty reality show, “Selling New York,” premiers tonight at 9 p.m., promising to showcase the “top of the real estate food chain.” The show follows Gumley Haft Kleier’s Michele Kleier and her broker daughters, Samantha Kleier Forbes and Sabrina Kleier Morgenstern, as well as Core’s Shaun Osher, among other brokers from each firm as they maneuver their way through some of the city’s most high-end real estate transactions. In honor of the debut, The Real Deal did some digging to find out which of the city’s prized properties are slated to be featured this season. Among them: a four-bedroom loft at the Chelsea Mercantile listed for $22.45 million, the 25 Murray Street loft for which former Giants star Michael Strahan is asking $1.85 million, a $17 million landmarked townhouse at 109 East 69th Street, and a 2,295-square-foot spread at highly-anticipated One Brooklyn Bridge Park (see slide show of many of the homes above). Click here for more information about the residences expected to appear in the upcoming season.
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Daniela Sassoun of the Corcoran Group at 110 Central Park South, which has been popular with her South American clients.

From the February issue: International buyers — perhaps the most overhyped group of boom-time
property seekers — are back, brokers say, and they’re richer than
ever.
While much of the meager sales activity in New York has occurred at
the lower end of the market during the past year, experts say the new
wave of foreign buyers now trolling for Manhattan property tends to be
wealthier than previous foreign buyers, and they are looking for
pricier real estate. That’s largely because the New York market is no
longer as accessible to the working-class foreigners who invested in
homes here during the mid-aughts. With mortgages rarely available to
foreigners, international buyers must now often be able to plunk down
the entire purchase price in cash. That’s just one of the ways today’s foreign shoppers are different from their boom-time counterparts. [more]

Jason Capello, who left the hedge fund Ospraie Management in 2007 to start his own firm, paid $15.45 million for a condominium in a Rosario Candela building at 40 East 66th Street, recently restored by Vornado Realty Trust. The sponsor-owned unit was listed as a four-bedroom with 4,913 square feet by the Corcoran Group for $16.25 million. Capello closed on the purchase April 13 after going into contract in June 2008, city property records published today show.
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